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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Married
Marriage
Stop
Getting
Woman
Away

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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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